KC Cat Clinic

7107 Main StreetKansas City, MO 64114

(816)361-4888

www.kccatclinic.com

Helpful Places On The Internet - We've tried to organize some of our favorite sites for information for you. You will find links to sites to help you better understand your cat, blog contributions, medical conditions, pet insurance options and more. You can also find a link for a Pet Library for other topics by scrolling to the bottom.

Who Is Your Cat? Understanding your cat and their behavioral and environmental needs

The Indoor Cat Initiative – One of the best sites for information about keeping indoor cats happy and healthy. Advice, ideas and support for indoor cat caregivers.

AAFP Client Brochures - Do you have a problems with elimination issues in your house? Need help with helping understand your cats environmental needs? Would you like to know what to be mindful of as your cats moves into their senior years? Helpful information is here.

Animal Planet's Jackson Galaxy - Got behavior issues at home? Jackson's site has great strategies. Even though we hate the name of the program, his web site has wonderful information to help you understand your cat and great ideas to help you make your cat's environment a better, more engaging, happier place. He also has a YouTube channel with great videos that explains lots about cats and their behavior.

iCatCare – Formerly the Feline Advisory board. Great information about medical and behavior issues from this European source.

Feline Redirected Aggression - Great information about what's going on when your cats suddenly don't seem to recognize each other as friends.

Feline Aggression Toward People - Remember that aggression almost always arises from fear. This site from Best Friends helps you understand triggers and suggests strategies to help with this complex problem.

Feeding Cats - It's Not Just About A Food Bowl Anymore. - Your cat is a natural hunter. Learn how to help your cat be happier by using forage and puzzle feeding methods. You can make your own food puzzles and hide small bowls of food around the house for you cats to go find. Or you can buy puzzles and items to help. Here's a link to a company called Doc and Phoebe's that has a fun device.

Binky's Page - There's are links on this page to charts with calories on many over the counter foods., both canned and dry

"How-to"s- Treatments and procedure you can do at home, as well as some helpful products

How to Give Your Cat Fluids - Kudos to Dr. Jill Partlow for a great video showing how to give subcutaneous fluids to a cat. We hope it will help you. There's another video that is a little longer and goes through some trouble shooting at home. Some of the topics are things that we want you to get instruction from us first, like how much to give or using syringes to give fluids. But overall, it's got good info for the basic procedure. Learn how to "Give Fluids Like A Pro"

How To Brush Your Cat's Teeth - getting your cat used to the actions needed from brushing and then getting your cat to accept it. Brushing is the best way to help maintain good dental health at home. In addition to that, you can also use a water additive called HealthyMouth that is designed to decrease accumulation of plaque on the teeth. It doesn't take the place of brushing, but might be helpful.

Bed Bugs 101 - Unfortunately, more of our clients are reporting bed bugs. Here's a brochure from the New York City Heath Department. Its an overview of where they are and how to manage. Call us if you have bedbugs so we can give you the most up to date advice about products to use on your cat and how to transport your cat so that their carrier and bedding don't spread them.

Having pet insurance can help you with the financial burden of unexpected medical expenses for your cat. The best time to get a policy is when your cat is a kitten and before there are any illnesses diagnosed that will be a preexisting condition. There are many companies and policy types. We have links to a few of the popular ones below. Companies these days make it simple for you to submit claims and do all the communication with them. Our office doesn't need to be involved for any signatures or claim submission.

We also have is a link that takes you to a chart comparing several companies in the market place here. Please note that VPI is now called Nationwide::